Grants & Awards

The mission of the Fundación Banco Sabadell is to promote and support activities related with culture, young talent and innovation. For this reason, we collaborate with organisations that undertake projects within these spheres and we organise and award the Banco Sabadell Foundation Prize for Biomedical Research, the Banco Sabadell Foundation Prize for Economics Research and the Banco Sabadell Foundation Science and Engineering Award, as well as awarding different grants for research.

Below, we provide more information on the prizes, the research grants and the steps to follow to present a project.

Banco Sabadell Foundation Prize for Biomedical Research

The Fundación Banco Sabadell awards this prize with the aim of recognising the excellence of young professionals with an important track record in the field of biomedical research and the health sciences, who are outstanding in their speciality for their capacity for innovation. The award offers a prize of 50,000 euros and a work by a contemporary Spanish sculptor.

Jury 2018

Dr. Carlos López-Otín — Chairman of the jury 1958. Sabiñánigo

Dr Carlos López Otín is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Ovideo. He has worked at the Ramón y Cajal and Severo Ochoa de Madrid centres. He has also worked at the Universities of Lund, New York and Harvard. He combines his teaching with research on cancer, aging and functional analysis of genomes. He has won several prestigious awards, including the European Prize for Biochemistry FEBS", 25th Silver Jubilee", and the "National Research Award Santiago Ramon y Cajal".

Dr. Eduard Batlle 1970. Barcelona

Research Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). He is the Coordinator of the Oncology Programme and the principal investigator at the Biomedical Research Institute (IRB Barcelona). His most recent research focuses on the characterisation of the mechanisms that drive colorectal cancer. Winner of the “Banco Sabadell Award” in 2010.

Dr. Jordi Camí 1952. Terrassa

Chair and Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. General Director of the Biomedical Research Park of Barcelona (PRBB) and of the Fundación Pasqual Maragall. Member of Institut d’Estudis Catalans. His research has focused on scientific policy. In 2000 he was awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit by the Government of Catalonia.

Dr. Francisco Fernández Avilés 1953. Cuenca

Chair and Professor in Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is the head of the Cardiology Service at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital (Madrid). He is also the Scientific Cardiovascular Director at CIBER. His lines of research have focused on acute coronary syndrome and on cardiac regeneration therapy using stem cells.

Dr Ramon Gomis 1946, Reus

Prof. Ramon Gomis is a Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Emeritus Professor of the University of Barcelona (UB) and a member of the European Academy. Thanks to his research in the field of diabetes, he has published more than 300 original articles in prestigious magazines, and he has 4 patents for obesity, Alzheimer’s, haemostasis and epigenetic markets for diabetes.

Dr. José López Barneo 1952. Torredonjimeno - Jaén

Doctor of Medicine from the University of Seville (1978). Professor of Medical Physiology and Biophysics (1986) and Research Coordinator at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de Rocío (2001). Since 2006 he has led the Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla. He has completed postdoctoral stays in Paris, Philadelphia and New York. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Stanford and Columbia University. He is a member of the European Academy and the “European Molecular Biology Organisation” (EMBO). He has also been the President of the Spanish Neuroscience Society. Winner of national research awards: Juan Carlos I (1993) and Jaime I (1998) as well as the Medalla de la Orden del Mérito Civil (Medal for the Order of Civil Merit) (2015).

Dra. Nuria Malats 1962. Barcelona

Doctor in Medicine, since 2007 she leads the Genetic & Molecular Epidemiology Group at the National Cancer Research Centre. Her research focuses on pancreatic and bladder cancer, leading international epidemiological studies which integrate different levels of information, including omic data. She led the European Study COST EUPancreas (BM1204), she is a Board Member of the International Pancreatic Cancer Case Control Consortium (PanC4), and the chair of the Research Work Stream of Pancreatic Cancer Europe (PCE).

Dr. Óscar Marín Parra 1971. Madrid

PhD in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Director of the MRC Developmental Neurology Centre at King’s College London. Winner of the “Banco Sabadell Award” in 2008 and "Jaime I Basic Research ", awarded by the Generalitat Valenciana, in 2011, she was awarded the Cajal Medal from the Royal Academy of Science in 2017.

Dr. Alberto Muñoz Terol 1958. Murcia

Professor of Research at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) at the Biomedical Research Institute in Madrid. He is currently studying the effects of vitamin D in colon cancer.

Dra. Pura Muñoz-Cánoves 1962. Valencia

Holder of a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Valencia. PhD in Science from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is a ICREA research professor and professor of cell biology at UPF (Barcelona) and a senior researcher at CNIC (Madrid). She is a member of the ‘European Molecular Biology Organisation’ (EMBO). She studies tissue regeneration mechanisms in illness and ageing.

Dr. Manuel Palacín Prieto 1957. Barcelona

Group leader at the Institute of Biomedical Research (IRB Barcelona), Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona (UB). Head of Unit 731 of the CIBERER (Centre for Biomedical Research in Rare Diseases Network) Vice President of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM).

Dra. Almudena R.Ramiro 1971. Madrid

Doctor of Sciences and director of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology B at the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), where she is coordinator of the Department of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology. The aim of her research is to gain an understanding of these mechanisms and their contribution to diseases such as autoimmunity, cancer and atherosclerosis.

Winners 2018—2006

2018Dr. Daniel López Serrano

Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Murcia. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University (United States), he led an independent research group at Würzburg University (Germany), with the prestigious role of ‘Young Investigator Group Leader’. Since 2014 he has led his own laboratory as a senior scientist at CSIC at the National Centre for Biotechnology.

2017Dr. Borja Ibáñez

Graduate in medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid, and Doctor in Medicine at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently, he combines scientific activities by leading a research group at the Cardiovascular Research Centre (CNIC for its acronym in Spanish), with clinical activity through his role as an interventional cardiologist at the Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz. Furthermore, he also leads a group at the recently inaugurated CIBER for cardiovascular illnesses (CIBERCV for its acronym in Spanish). He has won awards in recognition of his contributions in the fight against cardiovascular diseases.

2016Dra. Nuria López-Bigas

Holder of a degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona. She is currently an ICREA researcher professor at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, where she leads and directs a laboratory dedicated to researching cancer genomes. Winner of awards for her contribution to the development of new bioinformatics methods for the study of cancer genomes. Her work has paved the way towards classifying patients suffering from cancer in accordance with mutations in their tumours, and to making progress in the implementation of individual therapies which are more closely adapted to each patient.

2015Dr. Xavier Trepat

A physicist and engineer, researcher at ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) at the Bioengineering Institute of Catalonia (IBEC). He was the first to describe a new mechanism of physical relations between cells that can promote metastasis in cancer. With his team, formed by some 15 people, he has developed a new technology capable of measuring forces on a nanometric scale.

2014Dr. Salvador Aznar-Benitah

Holds a degree in Biochemistry from McGill University in Montreal (Canada). Since 2013 he has been principal investigator at the Stem Cells and Cancer Laboratory of the Biomedical Research Institute (IRB Barcelona). The prize recognised his discovery of the influence of the circadian cycle on the behaviour of adult stem cells. A finding that has important implications in the fields of ageing and cancer.

2013Dra. Almudena R. Ramiro

Graduate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. PhD in Sciences and Extraordinary Prize for her Doctoral Thesis. Since 2011 she has led the B Lymphocytes Biology Laboratory at the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC). Her research in molecular and cellular immunology has clarified fundamental processes in lymphocyte differentiation and biology, facilitating the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

2012Ben Lehner

PhD in Biology from the University of Cambridge. Since 2006 he has been a researcher at the Genomic Regulation Centre of Barcelona (CRG) and has become one of the youngest group directors at the centre and one of the most brilliant scientists working in our country. Lehner and his team have contributed to understanding the causes of genetic mutations that cause diseases and the role that chance plays in their appearance.

2011Dr. Óscar Fernández-Capetillo Ruiz

PhD in Biochemistry from the University of the Basque Country. Head of the Genomic Instability Group of the National Centre for Oncology Research (CNIO) in Madrid. Awarded the prize for his contribution to establishing the origin of cancer and, in particular, the mechanisms of damage to DNA caused by oncogenes.

2010Dr. Eduard Batlle Gómez

PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona. Research Professor of ICREA and Coordinator of the Oncology Programme and principal investigator of the Biomedical Research Institute (IRB Barcelona). Awarded the prize for his research work focusing on colon cancer.

2009Dr. Joan Seoane Suárez

PhD in Biochemistry from Barcelona University. Research professor at ICREA and director of the Programme for Translational Research at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital Institute of Oncology (VHIO). He received the prize for his study of strategies for diagnosing and treating patients with cancer and, above all, brain tumours.

2008Dr. Óscar Marín Parra

PhD in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2014 he has been director of the MRC Developmental Neurology Centre at King’s College London. He was awarded the prize for his work on the biological origins of mental diseases, based on knowledge of the development of the cerebral cortex.

2007Dr. Benedicto Crespo-Facorro

PhD in Psychiatry from the Complutense University of Madrid. Director of the Psychosis Programme at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital and consultant in the Psychiatry Service. He was awarded the prize for his capacity for innovation and his numerous studies related with the biological origins of schizophrenia making use of neuroimaging techniques.

2006Dr. Manuel Serrano Marugán

PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Head of the Molecular Oncology Programme of the National Centre for Oncology Research (CNIO). Awarded the prize for his track record and contributions in the field of tumoural suppression to understand the phenomenon of cellular ageing linked to the production of tumours.

Banco Sabadell Foundation Prize for Economic Research

The Fundación Banco Sabadell awards this prize with the aim of acknowledging the work of Spanish researchers in the fields of economic, business and social knowledge, to contribute towards the analysis and formulation of alternatives that promote social wellbeing. The value of the prize is 30,000 euros.

Professor Emeritus of Business Economics, Complutense University of Madrid. Dean of Financial Studies School at Complutense University (CUNEF).

Ana Isabel Fernández Álvarez 1959. Oviedo

Member of the Board of Trustees of Banco Sabadell Foundation. Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at University of Oviedo. Coordinator of Finance Department at CUNEF.

Jordi Gali Garreta 1961. Barcelona

Director at the Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI). Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University and Research Professor at Barcelona GSE.

Teresa Garcia-Milà Lloveras 1955. Barcelona

Professor of Economics at Pomepu Fabra University. Director of Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.

Luis Garicano Gabilondo 1967. Valladolid

Professor of Economics. Professor of Economics and Strategy at London School of Economics. Banco Herrero Foundation award, 2007.

Soledad Núñez Ramos 1957. Badajoz

Advisor at the Department of Financial Stability, Bank of Spain.

Rafael Repullo Labrador 1955. Venezuela

Director of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI), member of the Executive Committee of the Econometric Society and President of the Spanish Economic Association.

Juan Antonio Vázquez García 1952. Boo, Asturias

Professor of Applied Economics. Ex rector at the University of Oviedo.

Gonzalo Barettino Coloma 1967. Oviedo

Secretary to the Jury. Assistant General Manager and Legal Director at Banco de Sabadell.

Winners 2018—2002

2018Laura Díaz Anadón

Dr Díaz Anadón has a joint honours degree in chemical engineering and German (MEng) from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge, Master's Degree in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Harvard University. She currently holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, she is a Bye-Fellow at Peterhouse College and a Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG). She is also a Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dr Díaz Anadón received the award for her work on climate change, a project that combines core research with the development of public policy to guide the work carried out by governments and international organisations.

2017Mar Reguant

Holder of a degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a PhD in Economics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) she has previously worked as an assistant professor at the University of Stanford, and she is currently a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Her line of research is focused on the economics of energy and the environment. Doctor Reguant has studied the function of auctions in wholesale electricity markets from a theoretical and empirical perspective. In these auctions different electricity companies offer their available electricity capacity at different prices. She has also carried out successful research in environmental economics. In particular, she has studied the carbon markets, comparing different mechanisms to reduce pollution. Her research shows that competition policies increase the efficiency of environmental policies.

2016Nagore Iriberri

Degree in Economics from the University of the Basque Country, and is a Doctor in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. She has been a research professor at the Pompeu Fabra University and is currently research professor at the University of the Basque Country. Her line of research is focused on the area of experimental economics and game theory applied to the study of social behaviour. A theme which stands out in her research is understanding individuals’ reasoning processes in strategic situations when they have not had the opportunity to learn from previous experiences.

2015Victor Martínez de Albéniz

Holds a PhD from the Operations Research Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) having studied engineering at the Polytechnic School in Paris and a master’s degree in Statistics and Economics at the Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance (ENSAE) in Paris. He is currently associate professor at IESE, where he has been undertaking his academic work since the year 2004. His line of research focuses on the field of operations management and, in particular, on the design and optimisation of global supply chains in the face of demand volatility.

2014Natalia Fabra

Holds a degree in Economics from the Carlos III University in Madrid and is a doctor in Economics from the European University Institute of Florence. She is professor at the Carlos III University in Madrid and associate researcher at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Her line of research focuses on industrial economics and, especially, on the analysis of the regulation and competition of the energy markets. Professor Fabra is a reference point on an international level in the electrical sphere, a highlight being her research into the design of auctions for the generation and distribution of electrical energy.

2013Gerard Padrò i Miquel

Holds a degree in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra University and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been professor of the University of Stanford and is currently Chair Professor at the London School of Economics. The jury underlined his track record of research in the field of Political Economics, in which he has made important theoretical and empirical contributions to the economics of development.

2012Emilio J. Castilla

A graduate in Economics from the University of Barcelona with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Stanford. He has been professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2005. The jury highlighted his track record of research in the field of economic sociology and his studies on the organisation of companies incorporating the analysis of social networks, professional careers and discrimination in the assessment of merit in organisations.

2011Marta Reynal Querol

Holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), a master’s degree from the Pompeu Fabra University and has worked as an economist for the World Bank. Since October 2009 she has been a researcher for ICREA and is a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University. Her research analyses the importance of the personal and psychological characteristics of leaders in corporate and country financial results, which allow a more comprehensive explanation of macroeconomic and corporate results as well as of the probability of observing conflicts.

2010Jesús Fernández Villaverde

Holds a degree in Economics and Law from ICADE and a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He is a researcher for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is the director of the FEDEA-Caja Madrid Chair and, since 2007, he has been professor in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His line of research includes important contributions to macroeconomic analysis in the sphere of growth models, the labour market and fiscal policy, among others.

2009Pol Antràs Puchal

Holds a degree in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra University and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a researcher for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and has been visiting professor at the MIT and at Princeton. Since 2007, he has been Chair Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research work has been based on the analysis of factors that lead companies to externalise and relocate their production, creating their own subsidiaries rather than contracting out to local suppliers.

2008Diego Puga

Holds a degree in Economic and Business Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has been professor at the University of Toronto and at the London School of Economics, researcher for the CREI (Pompeu Fabra University’s Centre for Research into the International Economy) and researcher at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (IMDEA). He is professor at the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) and co-director of the programme in International Commerce and Regional Economics at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has incorporated, for the first time, the effects of general equilibrium and establishes the ways in which industrial concentration leads to salary differences between regions.

2007Luis Garicano

Holds a degree in Economics and Law from the University of Valladolid, a master’s degree in Economic Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He is currently professor of Economics and Strategy at the London School of Economics and director of the McKinsey Chair at the Fundación de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA). His theoretical and empirical approaches to knowledge acquisition and transmission within companies, as well as his contribution to the design of offshoring models in the knowledge economy, earned him recognition from the jury.

2006Javier Suárez

Javier Suárez holds a degree in Economics from the Complutense University and a PhD from the Carlos III University of Madrid. He has held the post of professor at the London School of Economics and is currently professor at the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). The jury acknowledged his research record in the field of economic knowledge, fundamentally in the areas of banking economics and business finance, and his merit as an economist of prestige who has developed his teaching and research career at Spanish academic institutions.

2005Mauto F. Guillén

Holds a PhD in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Oviedo and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Yale. He is currently director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute, a research and teaching programme that combines business administration and international relations. He holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management at the Wharton School and is also Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and is on the Board of Advisors of Princeton University’s Sociology Department and at the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas. The Prize was awarded to him for his track record of research in the field of economic sociology and business administration.

2004Roberto Serrano

Holds a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD from the University of Harvard. He is professor of Economics at the Brown University (Providence), and has been visiting professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid, associate researcher for the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (IMDEA) and a visiting researcher at the CEMFI. The jury valued his research in the field of economic knowledge. Serrano is a world leader in his specialist area of game theory, where his work has consolidated him as one of the principal researchers.

2003Jose Manuel Campa Fernández

Holds a degree in Economics and Law from the University of Oviedo and a PhD in Economics from Harvard. He was professor at the University of New York’s Stern School of Business, holder of the Grupo Santander Chair in Financial Institutions Management and professor in Corporate Governance at the IESE. He has worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank for International Settlements and has been Secretary of State for the Economy. He is currently chair professor of Management of Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance at the IESE (University of Navarra). The jury agreed to award him the prize for his brilliant track record in research in the field of economic knowledge, as well as his contribution to the analysis and the formulation of alternatives that promote social welfare.

2002Xavier Sala i Martin

Holds a Degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Harvard. He has been visiting professor at the universities of Harvard and Pompeu Fabra, and associate professor at the University of Yale. He is currently Economics professor at the University of Columbia. The jury highlighted his outstanding research record in the field of the economics of economic growth and underlined his contributions to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Sala i Martín’s research focuses on public finances, social security and the monetary and international economy.

Publications

Banco Sabadell Foundation Science and Engineering Award

Banco Sabadell Foundation, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the work of Spanish researchers in the elds of science and engineering, has opened the call for the third edition of the Banco Sabadell Foundation award for Science and Engineering 2019, with BIST (Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology).

Jury 2018

Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell - Chair of the Panel 1944, Barcelona

Economist. President of the BIST (Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology).

Prof. Rosa M. Badia 1966, Mataró

Prof. in Information Technology from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona (1994). Prof Rosa M. Badia currently carries out research activities at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) as team leader.

Prof. Isabel Cacho 1969, Barbastro – Huesca

Doctor in geology, Prof. Isabel Cacho Lascorzs researches the ocean dynamics of the past and its relationship with different types of climate change. She developed her scientific career in Barcelona, Germany and England. Since 2008 she has been appointed as professor at the University of Barcelona.

Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren 1955, Bilbao

Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren received hist PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid (AUM) and after completing post-doctoral stays at Boston College and Colorado State University, he joined CSIC as a scientific researcher, before moving to UAM as Professor, and lastly, to the Catalan Institute of Chemical Research.

Prof. Javier Fernández de Bobadilla 1973, Granada

Prof. Javier Fernández de Bobadilla is a Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics (BCAM). He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Nijmegen and from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. He is the Head Researcher in two ERC-Starting and ERC-Consolidator projects at the European Research Council.

Prof. Juan Fuster Verdú 1960, Alcoi - Alicante

Prof. Juan Fuster Verdú is currently a CSIC Research Professor at the Institute for Corpuscular Physics in Valencia. He is an experimental particle physicist and his scientific areas of interest are the standard model of particle physics and discovering new physics.

Prof. María Ángeles Gil Álvarez 1953, Valladolid

Prof. María Ángeles Gil Álvarez holds a degree and PhD in Mathematics. Her research has focused on Statistics and Information and Decision theories, mainly oriented towards the analysis of fuzzy data (with a 20 month postdoctoral stay at the University of California in Berkeley with Professor Lofti Zadeh, the father of Fuzzy Logic).

Prof. José Manuel González Díaz 1953, Gijón

Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director of the University Institute of Organometallic Chemistry 'Enrique Moles’ (University of Oviedo). He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Oviedo, and completed a post-doctoral 2 year stay at the Berkeley University, California (MEC-Fulbright intern).

Prof. Lluís Jofre i Roca 1956, Canet de Mar

Prof. Lluís Jofre i Roca holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering (1982, UPC), he is a University Professor (1989, UPC). He is a fellow at the l’Institue of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, winner of the Premio Narcís Monturiol (Narcís Monturiol award) and a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. He is the Director of Cátedra Telefònica-UPC and of the Consorcio Mobilidad CARNET.

Prof. Anna Sanpera Trigueros 1962, Manresa

Anna Sanpera Trigueros holds a degree and a PhD in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1992. She has been a Associate Professor at Oxford University (1993-1996) and at the Paris-Saclay University (1996-1998), in addition to Habilitació en la Leibnitz Hannover University (1999-2004) and ICREA Research Prof at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 2005.

Prof. María Vallet Regí 1946, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Professor at the Complutense University and Group Leader of Intelligent Biomaterials (GIBI), CIBER-BBN. She is an academic at the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Pharmacy. She is a fellow of FBSE and AIMBE.

Winners 2018—2017

2018Prof. Rubén Martín

Prof. Martín has a Degree and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona. After five years working on his postdoctoral research in the field of organometallic catalysis, in 2008 he began his professional career at the Catalan Institute of Chemical Research (ICIQ, Tarragona). In 2013 he was promoted to Associate Professor and subsequently to ICREA Research Professor. He is currently leading a research team of 17 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at ICIQ in Tarragona.

2017Dr. Romain Quidant

Doctor in Physics at the University of Dijon (France). Since 2002 he has worked at The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona (ICFO for its acronym in Spanish) in the field of nanoplasmonics, and since 2008 he has worked as a professor at ICREA, and is also the leader of a tenured group at ICFO. His area of research is focused on the study of the optical properties of nanostructures, known as nanophotonics. He has won awards for his contributions in the field of nanophotonics, which includes the creation and development of ‘nano optical tweezers’ which can trap particles as small as molecules and viruses without modifying them, which offers a very wide range of uses in the field of biomedicine.

Design Award ANFACO- Banco Sabadell Foundation

Banco Sabadell Foundation and ANFACO CECOPESCA call this prize with the aim of selecting young designers to design the commemorative plaque to celebrate 115 years of ANFACO-CECOPESCA, under the claim “CATA LA LATA” which will then be displayed at the ANFACO museum in 2019. This initiative aims to recognise and develop the creative talent of young designers, and give them the opportunity to showcase their work. The award offers a prize of 6,000 euros.

Research Grants

The Banco Sabadell Foundation is offering 15 grants for Spanish researchers who are in the final stages of completing their doctoral theses at a Spanish university or Spanish science centre. Grants are exclusively applicable for research in the fields of social sciences and humanities. The purpose of the grants is to fund research visits at Spanish or foreign universities, Spanish or foreign research centres and other activities relating to the doctoral thesis.

The value of each of the grants is 6,000 euros, an amount that may vary according to the budget and circumstances of each proposal.

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